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Description

Purpose of the event:

This event has been organised to inform participants of the upcoming opportunities in the Research Infrastructures (RIs) Work Programme 2018-2020. The work programme has been pre-published by the European Commission.

Programme:

10:00 Arrival and Registration

10.30 Welcome and introduction to the day

Claire Devereux, UK RI Programme Committee Representative

10.40 Overview of the RTD and e-infrastructure Calls in the 2018-2020 RI Work Programme, part 1

A playback of a video recording of Philippe Froissard, RTD, European Commission speaking at

the London RI info day

11.15 Coffee Break

11.30 Overview of the RTD and e-infrastructure Calls in the 2018-2020 RI Work Programme, part 2

A playback of a video recording of Philippe Froissard, RTD, European Commission speaking at

the London RI info day

12.10 Video link with the European Commission for Q&A

12.25 How to put together a winning Horizon 2020 proposal

ProfessorGary Pollock, Manchester Metropolitan University – PI of European Cohort

Development Project

12.45 Q&A

13.00 Lunch and networking

14.00 How the UK Research Office helps its subscribers

Katie Ward, STFC

14.20 Summary of Call timetable

Katie Ward, UK National Contact Point, STFC

14.30 Close

14.30-15.00 Opportunity to ask individual questions

The six calls which will be part of the 2018-2020 Work Programme are:

Development and long-term sustainability of new pan-European RIs (This includes design studies for brand new RIs and specific opportunities for projects on the ESFRI roadmap for the Preparatory Phase and Individual Support).

Implementing the European Open Science Cloud (Including topics on Access to commercial services through the EOSC hub, Connecting ESFRI infrastructures through Cluster projects and Support to the EOSC Governance).

Integrating and opening RIs of European Interest (There is a call in both 2018 and 2019 for Advanced Communities, these communities have been pre-selected and have received at least one previous grant for networking, transnational access and joint research activities.

European Data Infrastructure (Including topics for PRACE, Centres of Excellence on High Performance Computing (HPC) and Support to the governance of HPC).

Demonstrating the role of RIs in the translation of Open Science into Open Innovation (There is a call for stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs and to create a network of RI Liaison and Contact Officers).

Support to policy and international cooperation (There is a call for Policy and international cooperation measures for RIs).

Definition of a Research Infrastructure:

Research infrastructures are facilities, resources and services that are used by the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. Where relevant, they may be used beyond research, e.g. for education or public services. They include: major scientific equipment (or sets of instruments); knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or scientific data; e-infrastructures, such as data and computing systems and communication networks; and any other infrastructure of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research and innovation. Such infrastructures may be 'single-sited', ‘virtual’ or 'distributed'.